Firenze day two

We headed into Florence for our second day today. We started the morning at the Uffizzi. It is an interesting art history museum. Many beautiful statues, busts and paintings from early early times. Some have been in the Uffizzi since times like 1666. I was amazed at the detail and color in many of the paintings, especially that they were preserved for this long a period of time. One thing that did creep me out a bit was the fact that the paintings of infants all had faces of old men but the bodies of babies. What is this about I wonder? After that, Alexis and myself headed to the market with a few others in the center of town. We were starving and headed back to the restaurant we ate at on our first day in Florence. We picked up Sarah along the way and enjoyed a sit down lunch for E4 with a slice of Italian pizza and a coke. Then we were on a mission. Alexis and I set off to find things for our significant others. We found some good purchases and then attempted our very best to find our way back to the train station using our map. Bad idea. We are both terrible with directions and while we were able to read the map, we could not find any of the streets we needed. So we headed in the direction of our intuition, which was the complete opposite way we needed to go. We ran into Dr. Krieg thankfully, and he kindly walked us back through the city streets to our meeting place. From there, we headed to both the day treatment and residential treatment facilities that we learned about yesterday with Dr. Ciccone. The visits were interesting. It was hot and most buildings in Italy have a meek air conditioning system compared to U.S. standards. Most individuals in the group with doing their best to simply stay awake during the translations with our speakers. We didn't learn a whole lot of new information but it was nice to "put a face with a name" so to speak and see what resources were available in both places. I found it interesting that the "therapists" in the day treatment place didn't say really anything about having formal training in their particular field. After these two visits, we headed back to the train and went in search of gelatto. We searched a few streets only to return right back to where we started for a nice cold helping of the stuff. Then, it was time to head back to Casa Cares. Sarah and I decided to head for the train and sit and chill but they labeled the trains incorrectly, and if it weren't for Dr. Tyson looking out for us, we would probably have ended up somewhere like Naples. The ride home was nice - there was air conditioning - and I sat and talked with Sarah and Alexis as well as Angie and Adrienne and Christiana. Now it is almost dinner and I am exhausted. I think I am going to try for a quick shower. Ciao for now!